BBC News: Air India is set to send a replacement plane to ferry stranded passengers from a US-bound flight after its plane made an emergency landing in Russia. The Delhi-San Francisco flight had 216 passengers and 16 crew members on board when one of its engines developed a snag on Tuesday. The plane was forced […]
BBC News: High-risk air quality warnings have been issued for millions of people across North America due to ongoing wildfires in Canada. Wildfire smoke has blanketed major cities in Ontario and Quebec, including Toronto and its surrounding areas. The smoke has reached as far as New York City and Connecticut, where air quality has been […]
BBC News: Last week, a 90-year-old Indian villager was sentenced for life in prison for the murder of 10 people in a caste crime that took place 42 years ago. Families of the victims say the court judgement has come far too late to hold any meaning for them and legal experts say this is […]
ROM: His Majesty The King granted Dhar to the newly elected members of the National Council at the Tashichhodzong today. The National Council elections were held in April this year. His Majesty also conferred Dakyen to the new Chairperson of the National Council, Sangay Dorji, who is the National Council Member from Chukha. The National […]
NDTV News: Four days since India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades, which killed 278 people and injured over a thousand in Odisha’s Balasore, over a hundred bodies are yet to be identified. NDTV visited the mortuary of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhubaneswar, where distressed family members and friends […]
Reuters: June 6 – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will escalate the conflict further. “We must keep in mind that one of the modifications of the F-16 can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons,” Lavrov said in a speech […]
BBC News: Ukrainian forces have advanced around Bakhmut, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar has said, describing the eastern city as the “epicentre of hostilities”. She did not say whether a long awaited counter-offensive had begun. Separately, Russia’s military said it had repelled a new attack in the eastern Donetsk region on Monday. Bakhmut has for […]
BBC News: China’s defence minister has said war with the US would be an “unbearable disaster” for the world in his first major speech since taking on the role. At a security summit, General Li Shangfu said “some countries” were intensifying an arms race in Asia. But he said the world was big enough for […]
BBC News: US fighter jets scrambled at supersonic speed to intercept an unresponsive plane as it flew over Washington DC on Sunday. The F-16 jets caused a loud sonic boom that was heard around the region, prompting concern from some residents. They were deployed after the plane entered some of the most heavily restricted airspace […]
ABC News: SRINAGAR, India — A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to a shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir skidded off a highway bridge into a Himalayan gorge Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55, police said. The bus was on the way to Katra town from the northern state of Punjab’s Amritsar city when it […]